Ducking guns isn't anything to joke about especially when people have lost loved ones and kids to it. I'm all for responsible gun ownership but jokes like this should not be said. Just plain stupid and Huck usually takes the high road. Not good to joke about someone pointing a gun at Obama especially when mentally disturbed people take things like that serious. For example the shooting at VA Tech. Huck, explain to the parents of the deceased kids how it's funny to joke about guns being pointed at humans.

I hope there is some context around this. Being that we are in a PC world, if Mike did say and implied that he would get shot, then he should have known better. I'm not getting the joke either from the snippet posted. Something seems to be missing.

Sorry, I see NO HUMOR in his 'dispicable remark' and coming from a PREACHER MAN, he better 'pray to God' a gunman doesn't come looking for him. Just lost any respect I had for him when he bowed out of the GOP campaign!

With assassination a strong possibility in politics today, Huckabee shows a great insensitivity in making such remarks. You don't joke about something so serious after actions against John Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Bobby Kennedy and Ronald Reagan lie in our past. Huckabee has put his foot in his mouth and his comments today will be remembered when he ever runs for office again. What goes around, comes around. There are kooks of all kinds and one of them might hold Huckabee responsible for seemingly saying it is okay to go after Obama with a gun, if anything should happen to Obama. Besides, you watch what people pay attention to and you will know what they are unconsciously thinking. This tells you what Huckabee and others like him, including some die-hard Clinton supporters, may be intuiting.

Huckabee's lame attempt at humor at the expense of Obama may well come back to bite the "Reverend's" rear. Being a man of the south, I find it hard to believe that he does not know the history of non-White reformers and aspirants to public office getting murdered. I hope there is no attempt on Obama's life. But who knows to what extent the GOP or some nut case will stoop to? All it takes on brain-washed/intolerant nut case. Huckabee and the GOP are playing with fire.

Sorry I see NO HUMOR in that DISPICABLE remark. Furthermore, I thought he was a "PREACHER MAN" so he better pray to his God that a gunman does not come for him. Used to have some respect for Huck, but just lost it!

Ben - your conclusion about Huckabee's remarks is it's not good for his chances for VP? How about concluding it was inappropriate and certainly disturbing to make those comments at an NRA event, especially when NRA nuts like Ted Nugent publicly called Obama "a piece of sh**" and told both HRC and him to "suck" his machine gun, which got great applause from the audience. I hope the Secret Service pays Mr. Huckabee a little visit to remind him that statments like that are dangerous in any context. Hubackee - one good Christian speaking on nothing but those good ol' christian values. What a loser.

I thought Huckabee had more sense than that. I mean even though he didn't mean it the way it sounds, it's still NOT politically correct. An now everybody is going to be up in arms. Especially black folks and rightfully so. Because the reality is, there are many who'd like to see Obama taken out.

W.T.F.
Isn't this considered conspiracy to assassinate? Ben, how can the blogosphere let this go off as a joke? This is ****ing serious!!! Huckabee may have been joking but this is a presidential candidate he is talking about and this is as serious as a heart attack. John McCain needs to reject and denounce Mike Huckabee right now, and Mike Huckabee should be investigated for conspiracy charges.

I like Huck and won't hold the statement against him because he's a decent enough guy. But the joke was offensive. This is why he won't be VP. He tends to speak off the cuff way too much. And he generally clueless on important policy issues. But he's a likeable guy.

I keep saying people, the Republican party is going to have a tough time running against Obama. Not all but many have race filled hate in their hearts. No matter how much they try to hide it, it's going to come out. They can't help themselves. And they will be exposed. It's happening already. wait and see.

What a piece of garbage. He is no different than Hagee, Parsley, or Dodson. Don't let the folksy demeanor fool you. He is a demogogic racist, who fits nicely with the Republican base. Pretty scary.
And BTW, wouldn't it be nice if McSame repudiated him, and even went further to say he does not want any votes of someone who won't vote for Obama because of his race.

The 40+% of blacks that voted for Huckabee in Arkansas for governor are scratching their heads. Didn't Huckabee attend the MLK commemoration a few months ago? I told you that these GOPers was/are as phoney as they come.

Possible Explanation: It was a reference to Barack's comments about working class people being bitter and clinging to their faith in God and in their guns ("BITTER GATE"). He was implying that Obama is probably afraid of gun owners/advocates.

Huck...you just killed the last shred of my respect for you!
Even an ordinary, illiterate, low class person has more tact than you are, apparently.
I can only imagine what your taste, your raising of your kids, your treatment of your wife and your household like.

I like Huck and won't hold the statement against him because he's a decent enough guy. But the joke was offensive. This is why he won't be VP. He tends to speak off the cuff way too much. And he generally clueless on important policy issues. But he's a likeable guy.
Posted By: Earl | May 16, 2008 at 03:43 PM __________________

I hate Huck, he is a TERRIBLE person. He told a rape victim to her face that she was not raped. (Though her rapist raped 2 other people)

But I don't hold it against him. Remember John Kerry's "botched joke?" I have heard a dozen from McCain that nobody laughed at because they were inappropriate and mean (though not THIS inappropriate.) Every one of us says something stupid that would be interpreted in a way that does not reflect our true feelings. My pure, unadulterated hatred for Gomer Huckabee aside,

I am OUTRAGED and ANGRY! What a very disgusting thing for him to say as a man of GOD. How Christian of him! I liked Huckabee, thought he was a "good" person - now I know better. He is no more than evil itself with a nice smile. Shame on him!

So much for Huckabee being the master of the modern media. Aside from the tastelessness of joking about assassinating a candidate who's had Secret Service protection longer than John McCain for good reason: Who the heck wouldn't duck if a nutcase aimed a gun at them? What's McCain going to do, stand there and deflect bullets with his chest?

"....just Hillary still dodging sniper fire..." would have been less wordy if one wanted to go with the gun theme.
Huck is ok, though. He did defend BHO at the height of the Rev Wright issue, so probably did not mean any offense. I'd let this one go as just a bad joke.

Beyond poor taste and judgement. Not at all funny considering how much secret service Obama requires because of some nut job out there who might take this "joke" as some sort of dog whistle for action.

McCain is throwing Hillary a bone, in hopes of keeping her viable. The last person John wants to run against is Barack. He'd much rather run against an incompetent, the wife of a draft dodger: http://theseedsof9-11.com

What does the Bible say? From the abundance of heart, the mouth speaks. That comment really overshadowsn who this man claims to be. Buthten again, who am I to judge?
Huckabee owes Obama a huge apology. As a Christian, I was hoping he would set an example for Bush and McCain. Does he need publicity so much that he would stoop so low? Be careful Hauckabee not to cause other Republican Christians to stumble or is it too late?

it's not just stupid. it's DANGEROUS. especially now when racis, has been exposed in certain corners of the secret service.
I'm not even sure he should apologize because the issue would get more press and might attract more lunatics. But Huckabee shouls be punished/penalized for this kind of remark. How and by whom, I dont really know.

I am obama supporter.
I have to say, you guys are looking too deep into it.
Huckaboo is an idiot for sure, but I dont think he wants Obama to be assassinated or it's a racist hit.
Lastly hucakoo, please dont try to be funny all the time and shut up for sometime now.

it's a bad enuf comment as it is,but from a self professed "baptist preacher" that was low.We wonder why people have a hard time accepting Christ, well folks, there is it.A "preacher" making a wise-crack about someone being shot.There's gr8 representation for ya.I couldnt care less who he referred to,just know that those comments will no doubt have put some people off Jesus,really sad.Piece of advise, when a politician(Democratic or Republican) says he's a "Christian", ignore the propaganda.a real shame it is

Do you really think that clever or anything except disturbing, Huckabee?
This trash needs to be locked up, anyone who daydreams about pointing guns are presidential candidates should have a talk with the secret service.

Huckabee = man of God? I don't think so. I think you are a typical Republican like Sean Hannity, O'Reilly and Ann Coulter who veil themselves as Christians but are not Christ-like in any sense of the word.
Christian in name only... SHAME ON YOU!

Hey commenter on May 16th at 3:28 -- how does this have anything to do with Hillary or her supporters? You're a jerk -- just like Huckabee. Hillary never said anything like this, and I happened to have been in California growing up when Bobby Kennedy was shot, and in college when two nutjobs tried to take out Gerald Ford in California (remember Squeaky Frome and Sara Jane Moore) which you forgot to mention from your assassination list. HRC has nothing to do with this type of gutter comment from Huckabee, so get off your Obama soapbox.

Who in the hell cares about Clinton right now in this thread, idiot. This isn't about a soapbox it about some other fool talking about the assassination of a presidential candidate trying to call it a joke, numbn*ts.

I am sorry to say, but those who are so offended at this joke or find it offensive (as I a huge gun rights advocate did find it unhumorous AND offensive) are just out of the loop with modern conservatism. I didn't leave the NRA the NRA left me as Reagan might say. This is the new face of the Republican party Coulter, Hannity et cetera will be out trying to defend him shortly and say why this is just a bunch of liberal wussyism to take offense at such a wholesome joke from a religious Baptist leader.
There could be an argument that this makes him more likely to be the VP steaks winner - he is obvioulsy much more representative of the neo-con movement than his nice guy shame would make old school conservatives like me have though previously. He is George Bush the second.

So McCain was a POW, so what! So are many others living under bridges and highways.
McCain on foreign policy is a big joke he talks about the dialogue for talking peace with the same type of people and countries years ago. Now that he wants to president he says differently. The Rev. John Hagee endorsed McCain and accused the Roman Catholic Church of supporting Adolph Hitler. So why bring Rev. JW in picture ,he endorses no one in.
Then his partner Bush and delivers a message of such disgusting content to the Jews on their anniversary. I cannot imagine their thoughts of America at that particular moment.
Getting my comrades out of Iraq ASAP is imperative, not 100 years from now. McCain may not last next month. and those young men will last much less. God forbid if something were to happen in America right now we have no troops in the continental USA to defend the Nation. There all over the place because of the retartd someone put in office.
It is disastrous for McCain and the republicans to touch social Security. He does not need it. However, many are depending on it. They cannot make Social security better. Then don?t touch it. We have got to make sure he?s not in the white house. McCain wants to give corporate tax breaks. That means we the people pay higher taxes. He wants to Allow First-Year Deduction, Or tax deduction, Of Equipment And Technology Investments to coorporations. Big corporation will get deduction. Not us
How will he curb the green house effects (GHG)?. He does not have a clue. He mentions nothing on education in which we are so far behind.
He actually says nothing of his short term plan for the economy or on border security & immigration reform. At this very moment the republicans don?t know what they are doing? The nation is so ?JACKED? up by these so called intelligent folks. And those special interest groups and lobbyist he talks about; They will be in his left and right pockets. He has been in government watching this for years. Mc Cain cannot bring this country together for a better future because he represent the Old, The Past. The I was era. As he say he?s ?Older than dirt?.